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From the Daily Mail in the UK Children are ill-disciplined, bad-mannered, disrespectful and treated too leniently – according to their grandparents. Changing attitudes mean most parents no longer reprimand their offspring with the age-old methods of a smack or sending…

From Fox News (and many other concerned media reports around the world) A group of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals say it’s time to change the way society views individuals who have physical attractions to children. The organization, which…

Warning – contains offensive material Media Release 1 Sep 2011 Family First NZ says that the Wellington City Council has both a moral and legal obligation to demand that a brothel owner remove an offensive brothel sign which is offending…

Hey! – even Justin Bieber likes us “…always remember to keep family first.” Teen Choice Awards 7 August 2011 ALCOHOL LAW REFORM 1.Festering Sore of Alcohol Harm To Be ‘Tickled’ Family First Media Release 26 August 2011 Family First NZ says…

From the Guardian in the UK Ministers back anti-abortion lobby reforms The government has caved in to calls from anti-abortionists to overhaul existing protocols and strip charities and medics of their exclusive responsibility for counselling women seeking to terminate a…

From the NZ Herald Children in poorer neighbourhoods are being admitted to hospital as victims of assault, neglect or maltreatment at a rate more than five times that of children in wealthier neighbourhoods, a report has found. The Children’s Social…

From the Independent in the UK, more research showing that it’s not the technique – it’s the style and character of parenting that matters. This time – related to alchol abuse. Parenting style is one of the strongest influences on…

From the Washington Times Cohabiting is an emerging threat to the health of children and society, two new research reports say. In the latter half of the 20th century, “divorce posed the biggest threat to marriage in the United States,”…

Media Release 26 August 2011 Family First NZ says that the government’s proposals to reform alcohol laws will have little effect on our binge drinking culture and as a result the problems of domestic violence, child abuse, underage drinking, public…

Reported in the Dominion Post A bill banning dairies from selling liquor and forcing supermarkets to hide it away is “devoid of any substantial measures” and was more like a “non-reform bill”, critics say. The select committee that considered the…